Re: r29121 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-18 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 03:08:59AM -0800, Ron wrote: : > +Although most rational implementations normalize or "reduce" fractions : > +to their smallest representation immediately through a gcd algorithm, : > +Perl allows a rational datatype to do so lazily at need, such as : > +whenever the denomin

Re: r29121 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-18 Thread Ron
> +Although most rational implementations normalize or "reduce" fractions > +to their smallest representation immediately through a gcd algorithm, > +Perl allows a rational datatype to do so lazily at need, such as > +whenever the denominator would run out of precision, but avoid the > +overhead ot